In this, his fourth short fiction collection, Daniel Stern explores his broadest canvas to date. These ten humorous and touching stories deal with love, money and power, the nature of artistic inspiration, and the joys and passions of youth. In addition to their compelling surface narratives, these works are freighted with persuasive knowledge of and insights into visual art, music, and philosophy, adding depth and texture to the funny and tender stories of questing and strained relationships. The two longest pieces, ...
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In this, his fourth short fiction collection, Daniel Stern explores his broadest canvas to date. These ten humorous and touching stories deal with love, money and power, the nature of artistic inspiration, and the joys and passions of youth. In addition to their compelling surface narratives, these works are freighted with persuasive knowledge of and insights into visual art, music, and philosophy, adding depth and texture to the funny and tender stories of questing and strained relationships. The two longest pieces, "Lunch with Gottlieb" and "In the Country of the Young," hilarious and yet sensitive coming-of-age stories, bookend the collection. In both stories a young manall hope and inexperiencefinds that glittering sense of self and promise the young (and perhaps the old as well) find in New York City. In "Lunch with Gottlieb," the fresh-faced Gordon Graff, with his newly minted English degree, has come to seek his fortunes in the maw of Gotham's advertising jungle. In the title story, Billy Gold, an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old Lower East Side resident whose family's musical aspirations impel him to a viola audition at the august Curtis Institute, is initiated into the magical mysteries of sex with a beauteous, frustrated writer, twenty-three-year-old Kitty James. In between the first and last story are eight others, all deft portraits of the universal need for love and human companionship. In "Foxx Hunting," Schellinger, a middle-aged widower, in his loneliness falls in love with a porn actress's smile and sets out to find her, with surprising results. In "Time Will Tell," an engaged pair has to come to grips with an obsession over timepieces that threatens their relationship. Stern offers a parade of men and womenyoung, middle-aged, and olderfinding and losing their way in places as disparate as upstate New York, Paris, and Los Angeles. This collection demonstrates once again, as critic Frank Kermode says, that Daniel Stern is "among the finest of modern American story writers. "
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Used; Good. Used; Good. 2-C-03 SMU press 2001 Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front free end page. A few pages have light pencil underlining which does not obscure text. Jacket has light wear. Book Condition; Good Jacket Condition; Good. 2001. HARDCOVER.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed & inscribed by Daniel Stern to the previous owner on the title page. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Minor foxing to page edges, otherwise very good.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Fine/Fine. First Edition, First Printing, with full number line on copyright page. Very clean, unfaded maroon cloth boards with bright silver lettering on spine. No bumping, no wear. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 211 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket is unchipped, unclipped, no wear, no tears. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. Stories by one of our very best writers of short fiction. 8vo. Short Stories.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. First printing with full numberline. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ in mylar sleeve. A copy in fine condition. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Very Good. No Jacket. CH6-Book has light stain on the bottom and light shelf wear otherwise fine. Signed and inscribed by the author to previous owner who is a Texas author "For Leon Hale with admiration Dan Stern December 2000" on the title page.
